How have Real Madrid fared in Munich in the past?
The 14-time winners have the edge overall but the stats couldn’t be much closer. Let’s look at Los Blancos’ previous trips to Bavaria.
Two of the clubs who have dominated the Champions League over the years, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid will contest a place in this year’s final. With an eye-watering 14 trophies in the Bernabéu display cabinet, no one has won this competition as many times as Madrid and Bayern are not that far behind with six - level with Liverpool and one less than AC Milan.
They are also the two clubs who have played the most matches in the tournament - Madrid with 486 and Bayern with 392, so unsurprisingly this is the most-played fixture in the history of the Champions League/European Cup with 26 encounters between the Spanish giants and their German counterparts. This will be the fifth time they have met in the semi-finals.
Bayern and Madrid first crossed paths in the semi-finals of the 1975-6 European Cup. Featuring a side packed with World Cup winners such as Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer, Uli Hoeness, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Karl-Heinze Rummenigge and Gerd Müller, Bayern were the defending champions having won the two previous editions. Conversely, Madrid had pretty much lost their mojo and their dominance in Europe. The glory days of the late 50s and early 60s were a distant memory by then. The Spaniards had last lifted the trophy in 1966, and this meeting was the third time they’d reached the semis since that victory over Partizan at Heysel.
The first leg at the Bernabéu ended level. Roberto Martínez poinced on a defensive cock-up to give the hosts an early lead but it was cancelled out by Der Bomber Müller, who finished into an empty net on the stroke of half-time. The game was infamous for a
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